Integrated Management Approach Towards Sustainability: An Egyptian Business Case Study
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Department of Business and Law studies, University of Siena, Piazza San Francesco, 8, 53100 Siena, Italy
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Department of Economics and Management, University of Pisa, Via Cosimo Ridolfi, 10, 56124 Pisa, Italy
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Sustainability 2019, 11(5), 1244; https://doi.org/10.3390/su11051244
Received: 25 January 2019 / Revised: 15 February 2019 / Accepted: 18 February 2019 / Published: 26 February 2019
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Economic Growth, Energy Consumption and Sustainable Development: The Case of Mediterranean Region)
Several studies have focused mainly on the following approach to tackle sustainable development issues at the management level: single sustainability managerial tools adoption (e.g., sustainable balance scorecard) and the “overlap” process between traditional management practices and sustainability-oriented ones. Conversely, integration as an “alignment” process between different sustainability management practices represents a research field, which is currently underinvestigated. Filling this gap, the purpose of the present study is to deepen and find empirical evidence on how sustainability management accounting, control, and reporting systems can be integrated through an alignment process. To this aim, we focused our analysis on a Mediterranean holding company, which is a well-known sustainable corporate practitioner to foster sustainable development in a socioeconomic and environmental problematic context. Therefore, we developed a single business case study analyzing an Egyptian firm to give practical evidence on the role of management accounting, control, and reporting practices in addressing sustainability issues. The analysis shows that the aligning process of different management practices involves a plurality of business aspects to manage, among them cultural and organizational ones. Despite its complexity, such a process is fundamental to pursue medium–long-term goals, ensuring sustainable firm growth and social wellbeing.
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Keywords:
sustainable development; sustainable KPIs; sustainable accounting & control; sustainability reporting; managerial integration; PRIMA programme; case study
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Vitale, G.; Cupertino, S.; Rinaldi, L.; Riccaboni, A. Integrated Management Approach Towards Sustainability: An Egyptian Business Case Study. Sustainability 2019, 11, 1244. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11051244
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Vitale G, Cupertino S, Rinaldi L, Riccaboni A. Integrated Management Approach Towards Sustainability: An Egyptian Business Case Study. Sustainability. 2019; 11(5):1244. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11051244
Chicago/Turabian StyleVitale, Gianluca, Sebastiano Cupertino, Loredana Rinaldi, and Angelo Riccaboni. 2019. "Integrated Management Approach Towards Sustainability: An Egyptian Business Case Study" Sustainability 11, no. 5: 1244. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11051244
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